[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment
JR Aquino
JR.Aquino at citrix.com
Sat Apr 30 16:10:14 UTC 2011
On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:45 PM, "nasir nasir" <kollathodi at yahoo.com<mailto:kollathodi at yahoo.com>> wrote:
Hi All,
First of all, many thanks indeed to the developers and community for making some great strides in the open source IPA world !
I am planning for a Linux deployment with the following requirements.
-- About 50 Linux clients running Kubuntu (can change this to ubuntu if necessary)
-- Centralized authentication
-- Centralized storage with iSCSI for /home folder for each user by means of a dedicated storage
-- NO Windows or other users
-- Admin should be able to create and modify the accounts of all the users
-- Admin should be able to set password policies
-- Allocate /home folder for each user from the storage through iSCSI
-- Server can be CentOS/RHEL (or even Fedora if absolutely required)
-- Any other administration of users if possible !
I was wondering whether FreeIPA makes sense to me in this scenario ? can it satisfy all these or at least some of these ? if not, can anyone suggest me some alternative solutions which are open source ? I am flexible on the requirements and can make modifications if that is required.
I would really appreciate any feedback on this.
Thanks in advance and regards,
Nidal
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Yes Nidal, you will find that FreeIPA satisfies almost all of these requirements. iSCSI managment is not a feature of FreeIPA.
If you are looking to begin now, I would recommend that you start with Fedora as your base server distro.
IPA will be available for RHEL as a Feature preview in 6.1 with plans to be fully supported and integrated by 6.2.
-JR
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